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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB vs. Vitess

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

tempoiq.com (offline)

terminusdb.com

vitess.io

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

vitess.io/docs

Developer

TempoIQ

DataChemist Ltd.

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2014

2012

2018

2013

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple authentication-based access control

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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